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Zimbabwe
Category: Articles/Politics
... shows that the rule that “you are either with me or against me” continues to be a powerful force in deciding relations between African heads of state and the rest of the world. A zero-sum game may ...Wednesday, 08 September 2010 -
Springbok watch
Category: Articles/Sport
... enough support in certain areas. We want to review all aspects and find solutions.” But what happens when the coach doesn’t seem to feel that he needs assistance and lives in a state of denial? What ...Tuesday, 07 September 2010 -
Beyond the strike
Category: Articles/Politics
... from the poor and unemployed somehow seems to contradict Cosatu’s often-stated concern for the latter. Apart from the massive daily cost of the strike and the increased salary bill for the state, the ...Monday, 06 September 2010 -
Scorecard of war
Category: Articles/Politics
... Iraq with freedom and security for all. Only two days after President Obama made his announcement from the Oval Office, former US Secretary of State at the time of going to war in Iraq, Colin Powell, ...Monday, 06 September 2010 -
Crowning glory
Category: Articles/Leading Ladies
... says. “Most trends come from the and the new product is ‘hair mayonnaise’. It’s like a treatment and conditioner that’s soft and makes your hair shine. It also helps with your scalp. ...Monday, 06 September 2010 -
Privatising war
Category: Articles/Politics
... are ever-present and when it does the consequences might be highly embarrassing and even fatal. A recent investigation commissioned by the United States government into PMSC activities in Afghanistan ...Monday, 06 September 2010 -
South Africa’s humanitarian lodestar
Category: Articles/Leading Ladies
... fearless state of being has come at a price, and not necessarily in the monetary sense of the word. In 1998, by her own admission, she walked away from the gravy train when she gave up a “fat pay cheque” ...Monday, 06 September 2010 -
Civil Service Strike
Category: Articles/Politics
... an additional R1.5 billion if the latest offer to the unions is accepted. The total impact of the entire 7.5% wage offer on the state’s salary bill will be R6.5 billion. But all of this is but a small ...Monday, 06 September 2010 -
Land grab
Category: Articles/Other
... at the time it stated that policies should be “urgently reviewed in order to preserve the goal of world food security, protect poor farmers, promote broad-based rural development and ensure environmental ...Friday, 03 September 2010 -
Charting a course through life
Category: Articles/Leading Ladies
... saw which way the political and business winds were blowing though, and issued a corrective statement saying it wished to clarify its viewpoint on what it termed “the Busa presidential furore”. In its ...Friday, 03 September 2010 -
Let’s hear it for the ladies
Category: Opinions/Editors Notes
... of my male readers to cringe and feel the need to pull me aside to talk some manly sense into me, let me stop you before you embark on that mission. I am proud to blurt out that statement. Admitting ...Friday, 03 September 2010 -
Overlooking Public-Private partnerships
Category: Articles/Leaders on Leadership
... care among others. Interestingly, private sector participation in infrastructure development is not new, dating back to seventeenth century canal and road concessions in Europe and the United States. In ...Wednesday, 01 September 2010 -
Labour unrest
Category: Articles/Politics
... of a “general strike,” stated that it “could become the front of the final showdown, as the so-called winter of discontent became for British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher some three decades ago.” The ...Monday, 30 August 2010 -
Privatising war
Category: Articles/Politics
... to the Information Clearing House newsletter of 25 August 2010 the number of Iraqis killed since the United States began its military activities in that country has now reached 1,366,350. The official ...Friday, 27 August 2010 -
Land reform
Category: Articles/Politics
... that can be privately owned by one person, with government having the right to acquire the “excess” land and leasing it to black South African farmers; That state land may in future never ...Thursday, 26 August 2010 -
Middle East talks
Category: Articles/Politics
... East (ME) Friedman dissects the minefield of competing and often apparent contradictory interest of individual states or groupings of states, the tensions between ideological and sectarian dictates and ...Thursday, 26 August 2010 -
The Fresher King
Category: Articles/Leaders on Leadership
... a Spar supermarket in Vanderbijlpark. It was an unmitigated disaster and the Coppin brothers lost their boots through this venture. When asked about the reason for their failure, Brian states in his ...Thursday, 26 August 2010 -
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
Category: Articles/Environment
... they had found to the Zimbabwean state’s minerals marketing company. “In a matter of weeks, over 20 000 people from across Zimbabwe flocked to Marange, and ACR was effectively pushed off its claim,” ...Thursday, 26 August 2010 -
Nationalisation
Category: Articles/Politics
Quo vadis mining sector The mining sector and South Africa as a nation cannot afford to linger for another moment in the present state of uncertainty regarding ownership of mines, mining titles and security ...Wednesday, 25 August 2010 -
The Malema-factor
Category: Articles/Politics
... As international copper prices fell, the companies enjoyed guaranteed management fees while the state had to bear the losses to the mines”. All in all it appears the NGC will be used by Malema and company ...Tuesday, 24 August 2010
